Alcmaeon in Psophis

Alcmaeon in Psophis
Written by	Euripides
Chorus	Young women
Characters	Alcmaeon Others?
Date premiered	438 BC
Place premiered	Athens
Original language	Ancient Greek
Genre	Tragedy
Setting	Psophis

Alcmaeon in Psophis (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκμαίων ὁ διὰ Ψωφῖδος, Alkmaiōn ho dia Psophidos) is a play by Athenian playwright Euripides. The play has been lost except for a few surviving fragments. It was first produced in 438 BCE in a tetralogy that also included the extant Alcestis and the lost Cretan Women and Telephus. The story is believed to have incorporated the death of Argive hero Alcmaeon.^[1]

References

↑ Euripides (2008). Collard, C.; Cropp, M., eds. Euripides Fragments: Augeus-Meleager. Translated by Collard, C.; Cropp, M. Harvard College. pp. 77–99. ISBN 978-0-674-99625-0.

Plays by Euripides

Extant plays	Cyclops Alcestis Medea Children of Heracles Hippolytus Andromache Hecuba The Suppliants Electra Herakles The Trojan Women Iphigenia in Tauris Ion Helen The Phoenician Women Orestes Bacchae Iphigenia in Aulis Rhesus

Lost and fragmentary plays	Alcmaeon in Corinth Alcmaeon in Psophis Andromeda Antigone Archelaus Bellerophon Cresphontes Oedipus Peliades Phaethon Philoctetes Theristai

Euripides' Alcestis

Characters	Apollo Thanatos / Death Maidservant Alcestis Admetus Eumelus Heracles Pheres

Plays	The Cocktail Party

Operas	Alceste (1674) Admeto (1727) Alceste (1767)

Related	Alcmaeon in Psophis

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